“Probably just putting a little too much pressure on myself, playing too carefully, being a little tentative,” McIlroy said. “I think that sort of sums it up.”
McIlroy at least has won recently, at Quail Hollow. Dustin Johnson hasn’t won in four months. He felt the pieces start coming together last week in South Carolina, right up until a triple bogey on the 16th hole Sunday that dropped him out of the top 10.
“If I can drive it well, I feel like I’m going to have a really good week,” Johnson said
The course, as always, figures to take the stage even from the silly feud between Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka.
Mike Davis, the retiring CEO of the USGA, walked the course over the weekend and was reminded of how tough it played in 2008. Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate finished at 1-under 283, with Woods beating him in 19 holes of a playoff.
“It played like a U.S. Open should,” Davis said. “You had to hit all the shots. We tested shot-making skills. We tested your course management. We tested your ability to handle your nerves when it most counts.”
That’s what we saw this year and Davis said, “Can’t wait for it.”
When does it return after this year? That question is a little more complicated. During that early 50-year stretch of eight Opens in California, Riviera had it 1948 and the other seven were divided between Olympic Club and Pebble Beach.
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